Theresa Escobedo is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, and arts administrator currently living and working in Houston, Texas. She studied at the University of Houston and received a Bachelor’s Degree of Architecture in addition to a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design with a focus on community planning. She manages the Civic Art Program for the City of Houston through the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs.

As the City of Houston’s first-ever Civic Art Program Manager, Theresa has has been driven by a mission to diversify the perspectives of artists whose artworks are included within Houston’s municipal collection, expanding the subject matter the artworks in the collection present, and illuminating the narratives shared through collection artworks and the from the artists who create them.

As an artist, her work intersects ancestry, history, spiritualism, and in some cases, ideas on land, nature, and the act of pilgrimaging. This effort combines expressions of the artist’s cultural heritage with cosmopolitan spiritual pursuits. 

Recently, her practice has evolved to include the design and installation of ofrendas, executed as public space insttallations, each of which, like her photography,  demonstrate a decisive act of remembrance and work to safeguard familial mythologies, cultural histories, spiritual connections, and sites of memory.

As her work evolves, Theresa is interested in expanding her practice to include the development of public and civic art projects and city-wide cultural activations